Tim Newman writes: > It would be nice to get clarification from the NCAA about exactly what is > the status of teams in the second year of transition? Are they D-I for > some rules but D-II for others? Even if games against such teams don't > count for ranking in the tourney-selection criteria, do games against such > teams count toward the number of games necessary to be > tournament-eligible? In a number of years, for example, Army played about > 15 to 18 D-I games. As a result, Army was not tournament-eligible. > However, it was my understanding that the teams that played Army COULD > count their games against Army toward the minimum number of D-I games > necessary to be tourney-eligible. For example, if Colgate scheduled 19 > games against ECAC and other D-I schools and 3 games against Army, it was > my understanding that Colgate became tourney-eligible. The games against > Army might not be used in computing Colgate's ranking for the tourney, but > Colgate would still be tourney eligible. This actually happened in the past, when many of the current MAAC teams played in mostly Division II or III leagues, and were Division I without playing enough games to be eligible for the tournament. Occasionally, a Division I independent like Army or Air Force would reach the 20-game minimum only by including games against Iona, Fairfield, et al, but only games against other tournament-eligible teams were included in the calculation of the tournament selection criteria. John Whelan, Cornell '91 [log in to unmask] http://www.amurgsval.org/joe/ HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.